Love Among Friends
14. Alify Room Balcony

Farewell is a sacred word that everyone is afraid of. But the farewell will remain. Either temporary or forever.

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Alify was sitting on the balcony of her room, enjoying the night breeze and the glitter of the stars flying in the sky. Both of his eyes were closed enjoying the touch of coldness that pierced into his bones.

"Fy, am I interrupting your time?" the barithon sound of a tall, familiar man echoed into Alify's sense of hearing.

Alify opened her eyes quickly and tightened the beach cloth she was wearing to cover her plain shoulders. His body he stood up and the head he had just rested on the back of the chair was now upright.

"Gue makes you surprised, huh?" ask the barithon again.

"Ep... Sit here." alify said with a sincere smile to the cute black man who was a shuffled owner who was standing not far from where he was sitting.

Rio followed Alify's orders to sit next to him. With a heavy breath Rio tried to face Alify despite being deeply embarrassed in his heart.

"Lo what's the business here?" ask Alify softly.

Yeah, this is Alify. A girl who always smiles in any condition. Always forgive even if the person has hurt him repeatedly. A girl who never holds a grudge.

"Can't I play here? Don't I come here often?" kekeh Rio was trying to melt the atmosphere.

"Hehehe... Yes tumben aja, you've almost two weeks never played here, no news." Alify also chuckled to balance Rio.

"Today I was busy, so I didn't get here."

"Yes know who is busy listing lectures to the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom." seductive Alify is still trying to keep pace.

There is no word from Rio. There was silence between them. A showdown between Rio, Alvin and Sivia over Dea makes Rio awkward with Alify. Alvin and Sivia said, Rio was blinded by love. So Rio could not see which one was sincere and which one was modus.

"Lo sure you don't want to go to college with me in England?" rio asked ascertain while looking at Alify. The girl looked down at her two legs which she was shaking.

"Harvard University is still my top choice" Alify said.

"Well... We'll be separated dong. Between Britain and the United States." Rio sigh made Alify turn towards this man sitting next to her.

"Why indeed? After all, the bosen times from Kindergarten to High School together continue to be the same lo, where one class mulu again. Hahaha.." kekeh Alify made Rio also chuckle.

"It's also lo, bosen. In our school together, it's always the neighbors. Meet every day. Hahaha.." Rio's index finger tapped on the chair they were sitting on to relieve his nervousness.

Alify was silent. Somehow everyone talks about their future becomes awkward by itself. Plus problems that have not been clearly resolved or do not exist.

"Sometimes we will be able to feel longing if we are far away and have to wait to meet." Rio said suddenly.

Alify turned her head towards Rio with an unreadable look. Confused by the words of the handsome man beside her now.

"Gue will definitely miss the same lo, Fy." Rio's right hand stretched out ruffling Alify's head crest for a few seconds.

Alify's heart seemed to stop beating when she got this treatment from Rio. Indeed, this is not the first time the man beside him ruffled his hair, pinching his cheeks and even embracing or hugging him. But still, for Alify this is a very special treatment. Only the lucky girl could feel the attention from Rio. And only the girl who owns the windfall can be near plus familiar with Rio.

Alify is one of them besides Sivia and her ex-boyfriend. But if you say, Alify is the luckiest girl. Since Alify was already close to Rio from Kindergarten even the two Rio parents loved Alify like their own daughter.

"You are quiet anyway? You're not gonna miss me?" Rio raised next to his eyebrows waiting for a reaction from Alify.

This thin-legged girl no longer tilted her head, but lowered her head. I don't know what's interesting down there so this girl likes to look down tonight.

"Gue must have been more awkward to lo. Especially the attention of Om Mark and Aunt Nadin. Eating together or joking together, I am afraid that if I go home later I can no longer understand what I have ever rasain from the lo family." said Alify Lirih.

"Why can't you? Lo will remain Papa's favorite daughter. Even Papa is more affectionate to lo than I am to his own biological son." kekeh Rio made Alify's gaze turn mellow.

"The position will shift when you bring home the girl you'll be pinning later on." as strongly as Alify could hide the pain in her chest when saying just now.

Alify couldn't possibly let Rio find out about her feelings. They are still friends and will be the same at any time. Nothing will change between them. Only status changes and with whom they give up that single status to get married.

"Gue prefers Papa or Mama who bring a girl for me to betrothed than I ask their blessing first for me to make a companion." said Rio without hesitation.

"You mean you want to be fooled?" Alify increasingly does not understand what Rio said.

"Gue didn't say I asked to be fooled. But I do know who the girl Papa wants him to be our only son-in-law."

Alify's heart melengos heard Rio's reply. I don't know why it hurts. It's called a wound before war. Bleeding before scratching. Woo when it's still bud. People say this as a bloodless pain. And now Alify feels it.

Dismissed hope I made someone meaningful in your life, Yo. Inner Alify without staring at Rio.

"I came here actually I want to apologize to you, Fy." finally, Rio's burden said already. This is the main purpose of Rio coming to Alify.

"Lo never made a mistake for me."

"Gue apologized on behalf of Dea yesterday. I know he's passing the same. Sorry because all this time I don't believe in you."

Ah... I almost forgot that Rio's Dea's boyfriend. Why you can forget Fy. Alify smiled bitterly hearing that Rio apologized for Dea's mistake.

"Gue I'm sorry Dea, Yo. I even forgot about it." Alify developed her sweetest smile.

"Not only that, I also want to say that the day after I fly to London." Rio's voice glimpsed when saying the word London.

Alify looked at Rio for a moment upon hearing Rio's words. Alify held back her tears with all her might. Both of his hands trembled withstanding the turbulent feeling.

"Success well, that's at home there. Do not let down Om Mark and Aunt Nadin." somehow the sentence just now that was able to come out of the lips Alify. I want Alify to ask why so soon. But Alify was afraid she couldn't accept the reality.

"May I be at home." Alify nodded her head.

"Had to dong, he said he wanted to be a medical expert."

I wish I was away from you, Rio. Alify in the Heart.

"Yes, I must be strong."

"Wouldn't I go to the airport?"

"Do you want me to go to the airport?" alify's eyebrows have gone up next door.

"Well, I was hoping you'd take me to the airport."

"Isn't there Dea?" ask Alify lirih.

"Haha... I hope it's the same with Dea."

"Seriously?" alify's startled look was clearly imprinted on her pretty face.

"Two riuses, Alify." Rio's index and middle fingers raised upwards hinted at the number two to Alify.

"From when?"

"More than one this week."

"My ways?" alify voice is smearing.

"Haha... No, you're not the main reason I broke up with Dea."

"Keep if it wasn't for me because what dong?"

"Kepo. Haha...."

"Ah... No fun lo, playing secrets the same me." finally Alify back as before. His arm nudged Rio's arm deliberately making the man chuckle again.

"Haha... Yes, because I don't fit him. I can't have a long distance relationship anyway. I must be tempted by the bulls there later. Must be pretty. Ah... Heaven of the world, Fy." they came back joking like normal days.

"Emang basically guys can not see the clear-clear yes." snorted Alify because it was already poultice Rio.

"Most importantly clear his heart Fy, kayak lo." Rio turned his head towards Alify who was also looking at him.

"Gombal aja lo, do not mempan tau not gombalin me. I'm immune to the same seduction you like to be a weapon for the girls out there." Alify just wants to be hypocritical tonight. Alify was too scared if Rio knew her true feelings.

"If I'm serious about you tonight, what do you want?" rio's gaze turned serious looking at Alify's two eyeballs.

"Haha... I don't believe it. I've often been lo-yak-gini." the balconies that struggled with the cold of the night are now filled with Alify laughs on every corner.

"Haha... That's me kidding. How could I be serious about you." Rio was laughing with Alify.

Slowly but surely Alify's laughter faded from hearing Rio's confession that the man was just joking.

"Have you eaten?" rio asked trying to shift the conversation.

"What time is it."

"Do you want a handsome guy to eat?"

"Ih... PD handsome guy. I'm ah there if you want to eat mah, hus hus." Alify flicked both her hands telling Rio to come out of his room.

"So that's the story?"

"That's it, be sensitive, understand." Alify nodded her head enthusiastically.

"Huh... Basic, watch out if you miss. I'm not going to tell you." Rio threatened to scare Alify.

"Bodo very! I won't miss!" call Alify as loud as possible.

Rio finally came out from inside his room. Alify was in place. His legs seemed as if he could not move, stiffened instantly. Her lips were shaking unable to speak. Even the clear liquid had already seeped from both of his eyelids. Both rivers flow more and more without being able to be dammed. As powerful as Alify held the rumble in his chest.

"Gue will definitely miss the same lo, Yo." said Alify lirih.

This was the purpose of Alify driving Rio out of his room. Alify wanted to cry, it was no longer strong to hold the feeling of carelessness in her mind. There was a happy feeling that Rio was no longer silent, but Alify was also sad to hear Rio was going to London the day after. That means they will be a long time to be able to joke, even to meet would be difficult.

"Lo be careful right there. If nyari bule do not be more beautiful I, later you lupain me." lips Alify raved.

Alify's two legs were limp, her body decays to the floor. His chest was tight, his breathing was severed. Alify's right hand squeezed the beach cloth she was wearing to cover her body wearing sleeveless clothes.

"Until when do I feel this feeling alone, Yo? When do you know that I love you the same from a long time ago. Even before you date the same ex-lo."

Alify was still crying in the darkness and the cold of the night wind. Wreak every taste that is in the recesses of the soul. It's really painful!

Pretending to have no taste in front of him the poet was very draining and tearful.

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